• EpeeGnome@feddit.online
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        25 days ago

        I like the thought, but it won’t work. The big websites won’t be willing to lose money they don’t have to, and like ID laws that give them reasons to extract more data from users anyway.

        • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
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          25 days ago

          They actually want to avoid the liability of storing someone’s id.

          The government wants to make these things illegal, but they also want to track every person on the internet through their government ID, so they create the problem (age restriction and id checks) because they have the planned solution: digital id for every computer!

          Do you have your computer license? Do you? You think the internet is a psy-op and Big Brother’s watching you? Just wait until a government admin message pops up on your screen because you visited the wrong website.

          You’re getting fined for spreading misinformation or receiving a letter for libel due to some offhand tweet about some famous person. Don’t worry about receiving a notice in the mail, if you have a printer they’ll make it print your ticket for you immediately.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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            25 days ago

            You don’t thing an extra 10,000 words in the EULA won’t absolve them of liability for ID theft?

            Actually, the existing EULAs probably already do.

        • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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          24 days ago

          Indeed. ID laws are a wet dream of Meta and the like. Both because it gives them the unique ID the always wanted and because it is easier for them to comply than small upstarts.